It’s been downloaded 100,000 times. Does it make a difference?
A few years ago we covered Towit, an app where users posted photos of vehicles blocking bike lanes. Even its developer agreed that unless connections were made with the police, it was largely “just shouting into an echo-chamber, or passive-aggressive public shaming at best.” It now appears to be no longer available.
In Germany, a new app, Wegeheld (Road Hero) appears to be much more effective and popular. It’s been downloaded more than a hundred thousand times, and 70,000 photos of cars and trucks parked in bike lanes have been uploaded to Twitter.
